Making Sense of Secondary Science Research into Children's Ideas

Name: Making Sense of Secondary Science Research into Children's Ideas
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ISBN: 9780415097659

ISBN-10: 0415097657

ISBN-13: 9780415097659

Edition: 1994

Authors: Rosalind Driver, Ann Squires, Peter Rushworth, Valerie Wood-Robinson

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When children begin secondary school they already have knowledge and ideas about many aspects of the natural world from their experiences both in primary classes and outside school. These ideas, right or wrong, form the basis of all they subsequently learn: research has show that teaching is unlikely to be effective unless it takes into account the position from which the learner starts. Making Sense of Secondary Science provides a concise, accessible summary of the international research that has been done in this area. The findings are arranged in three main sections: life and living processes, materials and their properties and physical processes. Much of this material has hitherto been…

Book details

List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/8/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




Children's ideas about life and living processes


Living things


Nutrition


Growth


Responding to the environment


Reproduction and inheritance


Microbes


Ecosystems



Children's ideas about materials and their properties


Materials


Solids, liquids and gases


Chemical change


Particles


Water


Air


Rocks



Children's ideas about physical processes


Electricity


Magnetism


Light


Sound


Heating


Energy


Forces


Horizontal motion


Gravity


The earth in space